Single-player games like Trash Wars
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Trash Wars, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Monsters are Coming!
Single-player alternative to Trash Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trash Wars.
Beware, Monsters are Coming! In this Tower-Survivor rogue-lite, you protect an ever-moving city from unrelenting hordes. Gather resources, fortify defences, and survive for as long as you can. Will you reach the Ark?
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Element TD 2 - Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Trash Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trash Wars.
Element TD 2 sees you combine powerful elements to create unique towers. Prove your defenses against challenging foes, and compete or cooperate with others to determine who has mastered the elements.
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Axon TD: Uprising - Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Trash Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trash Wars.
Axon TD lets you expand the map boundaries themselves. A huge arsenal of towers and a wide variety of enemies clash in a battlefield that grows to your whims. Engage in single, cooperative, and roguelite gameplay.
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They Are Billions
Single-player alternative to Trash Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Trash Wars.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
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Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Trash Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Trash Wars.
Gird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.
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Anomaly: Warzone Earth
Single-player alternative to Trash Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trash Wars.
Lead an armored squad through the perils of this reversed tower defense action-strategy game!
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Infested Planet
Single-player alternative to Trash Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trash Wars.
Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.
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Mini Motorways
Single-player alternative to Trash Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Trash Wars.
Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?